[OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

Robin Paulson
>Sent: 20 December 2007 9:25 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Render icons for parking areas
>
>On 20/12/2007, Knut Arne Bjørndal <bob+osm at cakebox.net> wrote:
>> "Robin Paulson" <robin.paulson at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > On 19/12/2007, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>> >> > i am confident the maths to figure out where to place the label,
>> >> > whilst ensuring it is inside the bounds of the area (and complying
>> >> > with any other set of arbitrary rules), would be fairly trivial to
>> >> > implement.
>........
>>
>> Sounds really good, I've been thinking a good bit about how to solve this
>problem lately, without really having much luck.
>>
>> If you can come up with the algorithm and need help implementing it, just
>give me a holler and I'll have a look at it.
>>
>
>i came up with a few ideas last night, all needing some work to
>complete them, but then jon burgess said earlier in this thread that
>it was already done in mapnik. is osmarender a completely different
>system, or is there some other good reason that method can't be used
>here?
>
>thanks for the offer of help, i will put some ideas up here as soon as
>they are in a more friendly form
>

Osmarender takes basic OSM XML and converts it to SVG using XSLT and XSLT
does not have a nice set of mathematical functions to play with.

Cheers

Andy